Matthew Barney and Bjork Perform With Marina Abramović at MoMA

Cremaster Fanatic Al sent us a link to these photographs of Matthew Barney, Bjork, and their daughter Isadora sitting with artist Marina Abramović as part of her performance The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In this performance, Abramović sits silently across from museum visitors. Isadora sat with her for three minutes, Bjork for four, and Matthew Barney for eight.

Follow up: New York Magazine reports that Marina Abramovic, "agreed to begin her performance early, specifically to accommodate Björk, Matthew Barney, and their young daughter."

All photos by Marco Anelli. © 2010 Marina Abramović

Matthew Barney at MoMA

Two works from Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 are included in the Here is Every. exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Deportment of the Host is a massive sculpture made from cast polycaprolactone thermoplastic and self-lubricating plastic depicting the tea ceremony room from the Nisshin Maru. Also on view (in the background of the above photograph) is Drawing Restraint 9: Shimenawa - a photograph of Barney and Bjork (as the Occidental Guests) kissing.

The exhibition will be on view through March 23, 2009.

Photograph from LA gal's flickr photostream.